"Spiritual band-aids and pain medication"

   Hi all,

     This week I learned that the gospel is true again, for the millionth time. It’s incredible to see how it helps people with everything in their lives. We have a man we are teaching, Curtis, who expressed to us that he has a lot of guilt and shame for previous mistakes. He feels like he is separated from God. 

          I feel to blessed to be able to testify from my heart that because of Jesus Christ, we don’t have to be separated from God.

      I was thinking about what life would be like without a Christ. For example, we would have been talking with Curtis the other day, and how sad if would have been if he had expressed his grief, and we could only say “Well sorry, but you will have to live that for the rest of your life! We can give you some little spiritual band-aids and pain medication, but it will be temporary.” 

     No! I’m grateful for Christ as the Healer of our souls. So even people who are torn up inside by sin, and hurt with grief and pain, can be healed. 

Love you all! Stay strong with any New Years goals and I hope you have a great week! 

Elder McMullin

Here are some pics from the week:

A wonderful snapshot of how a good deal of our time is spent - while going in reverse, one of our mission rules is for the other missionary to be outside of the car. So this is a view of what that looks like, since it happens about 10 times a day. :)

Florida being beautiful. 

Dinner! We decided that it took too much time to come home for dinner, so we enjoyed hot dogs with bread instead, and baked beans. It was honestly really good, filling, and we enjoyed every second of it.